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Laticauda colubrina Lembeh2🐍

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SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Banded sea krait

Laticauda colubrina (Schneider, 1799)

蓝灰扁尾海蛇（學名：Laticauda colubrina），又名黃唇青斑海蛇，是蛇亞目眼镜蛇科扁尾海蛇屬下的一種有毒海蛇，俗名灰海蛇、火烧蛇。主要分布於印度洋至太平洋一帶的海域，孟加拉湾到马来半岛沿海、巴布亚新几内亚、澳大利亚、菲律宾、斐济、汤加、日本沿海以及台湾沿海等地。目前未有任何亞種被確認。

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Also called
Columbrine Sea Krait, Yellow-lipped Sea Krait
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2010.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.59 kg
Body length
1.42 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Banded sea krait

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.59 kgmaximum recorded
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Body length
1.42 mmaximum recorded
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Diet
Carnivorous
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
ACT
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Venomous
Yes
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
1.27 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female1.25 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
  • Male1.27 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
0.6 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Banded sea krait yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyElapidae
  5. ›genusLaticauda
  6. ›speciesLaticauda colubrina
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  3. subfamilyLaticaudinae
  4. genusLaticauda
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. subfamilyLaticaudinae
  13. genusLaticauda
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アオマダラウミヘビ (ja), 灰蓝扁尾海蛇 (zh), Tricot rayé jaune (fr), Laticauda colubrina (pt), Wiosłogon żmijowaty (pl), Ploskochvost užovkový (sk) … and 18 more languages
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